Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
An important element of understanding a software code base is to identify the repetitive patterns of code it contains and how these evolve over time. Some patterns are useful to t...
A classic question in software development is “H ow much testing is enough?” Aside from dynamic coverage-based metrics, there are few measures that can be used to provide guid...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie A. Williams, Jason Osb...
: The decision of using existing software components versus building from scratch custom software is one of the most complex and important choices of the entire development/integra...
Sergio Areias, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Ran...
This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and analyses of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) development f...